Calling all scientists! Are you working on anything interesting? Maybe you are designing experiments about how long you can hold your breath in the pool or how long you can stand on your head! Maybe you are making observations about your new fish that you won at the fair! Maybe you learned an interesting new fact or got the chance to explore some amazing place! Please share! We want to know!
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Elementary Multiage Blogs
Try It! (optional home investigation)
#4 One Click Activism
#3 Tape down your thumb!
#2 Catch a leaf. That’s it. Just go out and catch a leaf.
You can’t pick one up, you gotta catch it before it hits the ground.
Bring it in and tape it to the window of the lab.
I hope to get mine tomorrow. (Mr. Alvaro, Lottie Schmidt Elementary)
#1 Build a Newton Scooter. Directions came home for The Newton Scooter Invitational.Heard….
-We could make a hypothesis about how many petals there will be! -The Cheetos are just like the anthers on a flower.- I am going to study Rachel Carson for my biography project. -Can we study physics? I have a great book we could use. -While listening to “I’m like a Bird” by Nelly Furtado… Well, what kind of bird is she? What species? -Found in a Writer’s Notebook: the Indiana Jones type character had to solve a puzzle to enter the treasure chamber. The character noticed that all of the animals on the puzzle were predators except for one. She pressed the prey character and then built the food chain to solve the puzzle! -It's like looking for clues! -Is this Social Studies? - Hey I've been to the Tar Pits!
Rachel Carson Playlist
We love Rachel Carson! She is the mother of ecology and the environmental movement. Here are some songs we have put together in her honor: Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell 3Rs - Jack Johnson Don’t Go Near the Water - Johnny Cash Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) -Marvin Gaye Here Comes Science - They Might be Giants Put it to the Test -They Might Be Giants My Brother the Ape -They Might Be Giants Whatcha Gonna Do -New Riders of the Purple Sage Garden of Eden -New Riders of the Purple Sage Chorus - Erasure River Flows in You -Yiruma (Nothing But) Flowers -Talking Heads Big Yellow Taxi -Counting Crows Let it Grow -Ester Dean